School Crisis Case Studies

Before Another School Shooting Occurs, Volume Two

Helen M. Sharp

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216341116
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

This book offers readers twenty crisis case studies from the inside of school buildings. The author-a licensed administrator and former teacher-presents salient situations and incidents that, unfortunately, are almost common occurrences. These might include disaffected pupils; intruder(s) in a building; a school's potentially negative atmosphere; skills learning vs. project learning; and girls fighting. All cases are realistic, timely, and thought-provoking, supplemented with a series of discussion questions for a school staff or safety group or a university student enrolled in an administrative course of study. Rather than a theoretical approach or one based on scientific investigation or a specific model, the author describes events and circumstances that are present and problematic in many schools here and abroad. Becoming familiar with potential solutions is as important as pinpointing available sources in one's own school district. School Crisis Case Studies provides readers with the opportunity to anticipate specific crisis situations and suggests responses, using the security measures and personnel available in the schools they are familiar with.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• FOREWORD: SCHOOL CRISIS PLANNING: A School Leader’s Perspective
• Chapter 01. THE NEW IMPERATIVE: Safe School Behavior, Strategies, and Practices
• Chapter 02. AN ATMOSPHERE FORACADEMIC SUCCESS
• Chapter 03. AN ADMINISTRATOR’S STYLE
• Chapter 04. AUTHORITATIVE INSTRUCTORS
• Chapter 05. CHANGING STUDENT ATTITUDES
• Chapter 06. COUNSELORS AND STUDENTS’ WELL-BEING
• Chapter 07. CREATING AND SUSTAINING PARENTAL PARTNERSHIPS
• Chapter 08. DISAFFECTED STUDENTS
• Chapter 09. DISENGAGED STUDENTS
• Chapter 10. ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE LESSONS
• Chapter 11. FEMALE STUDENTS FIGHTING
• Chapter 12. INTRUDERS IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING
• Chapter 13. POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS: Finish School or Full-Time Job?
• Chapter 14. STUDENTS WHO DISLIKE SCHOOL
• Chapter 15. THE SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER
• Chapter 16. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Chapter 17. STUDENT BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD ACADEMICS
• Chapter 18. RESPONSES TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO TALKS ABOUT DESTRUCTIVE ACTS IN A SCHOOL SETTING
• Chapter 19. TEENS’ VIOLENCE AGAINST TEENS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR